Chapter 92 Busy Trading

“If there’s no grain for now, then exchange it all for drinkable water.” “Okay, you go ahead and prepare the water containers, I’ll find someone to get the water.” Xiao Jue’s request sounded simple enough. But the difficulty was that Wenxuan hadn’t replied to her message for a long time, she didn’t know what was going on. And she was in Beijing now, and it was already evening, it wasn’t convenient to go out of the courtyard. She couldn’t possibly connect the water tap in the courtyard to the space, could she?

[You’re really stupid, why don’t you ask people from other dimensions to find water sources for you?] Xiaoqi’s sarcastic remark suddenly appeared in Qian Xiaolan’s mind. She was stunned for a moment, then she realized, oh right, she still had other clients in other dimensions. All along, almost all the supplies were collected for her by Wenxuan in the modern dimension, she had really forgotten that her other clients could also find resources for her. Su Yirou’s apocalypse wouldn’t work, there were zombie viruses rampant there, their drinking water relied on water-type ability users and their trade with her. The underworld wouldn’t work either, since she burned paper money for those ghosts last time, they hadn’t made a sound the next day, they probably all reincarnated. Now there was only the primitive dimension left, A Hu’s water sources should be abundant. Qian Xiaolan snapped her fingers, raised her hand and sent three messages to A Hu in a row.

[A Hu, are you asleep?]

[A Hu, help me out!]

[I need water! Lots of water!]

After a while, A Hu replied: [We live by the river, there’s a lot of water, but how do I give it to you?]

Qian Xiaolan: !!! She put all the water buckets she had used to hold fish in her space on the shelves, and then sent a message to Wenxuan. Wenxuan still didn’t respond. After thinking for a moment, she contacted Su Yirou: [Little sister, do you have any water buckets or tanks? I need a lot!] She wanted to swear. To get some water, she had to ask for help from several dimensions. If Su Yirou didn’t reply either, she would be really lost. Fortunately, Su Yirou didn’t disappoint Qian Xiaolan, and she replied quickly: [As luck would have it, I’m at a plastic bucket factory.] Qian Xiaolan was overjoyed, she showered her with compliments: [Su, you’re my lucky star! You’re beautiful and kind, quickly pack me lots of water buckets, I need them urgently! I’ll trade with you for seafood, self-heating hot pot, self-heating rice, or snail noodles.]

[I want all those things.] Su Yirou smiled slightly, and then put a warehouse full of large water buckets on the shelves for Qian Xiaolan. Qian Xiaolan received the buckets and forwarded them to A Hu. It was a bit awkward to have people get up in the middle of the night to work, so she put a lot of pastries and cola on the shelves for A Hu to have as a late-night snack. After finishing this, Qian Xiaolan put self-heating hot pot, self-heating rice, snail noodles, and seafood on the shelves for Su Yirou. Unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye, Su Yirou put another pile of water buckets on the shelves for her, as well as water tanks and water barrels. Qian Xiaolan accepted them all and put more supplies on the shelves for her. After a lot of hustle and bustle, Xiao Jue also returned.

 With him came a large number of heavy water tanks. “Your Majesty, you don’t need to move those water tanks in for now, I have a lot of light water buckets here.” Xiao Jue nodded and moved the water tanks back out. I don’t know how many people A Hu had used to fill the water, they were pretty fast. In a short while, dozens of buckets of water were put on the shelves. Qian Xiaolan collected them one by one, transferring them to Xiao Jue, and took the opportunity to collect a box of jade rough that Xiao Jue had put on the shelves. She had to take time to collect the various types of containers that Su Yirou had put on the shelves, and then transfer them to A Hu.

 She was so busy. After putting up over a thousand buckets of water, she felt that Xiao Jue wouldn’t be able to carry them all in so quickly, so she stopped, the rest would be transferred all at once after A Hu finished filling the buckets. She glanced at Wenxuan, and there was still no reply. Qian Xiaolan’s brows furrowed unconsciously.

Speaking of Wenxuan, he received Qian Xiaolan’s message that she had emptied her warehouse and needed a large amount of rice and flour, so he drove out of his house at night. He had already contacted several nearby farm owners, who had a lot of grain in stock. But because the grain harvest was about to begin, those farm owners were busy with the summer harvest and had no time to deliver the goods, so he could only go and pick them up himself. Wenxuan called ten large trucks and set off for the farm. As the convoy was returning, they encountered heavy rain, which delayed them on the way. This wasn’t the worst part, the most depressing thing was that a section of the road ahead had collapsed, blocking their way back. They turned back, and the road behind them had also collapsed. Wenxuan didn’t know whether to say they were lucky or unlucky.

The dozen or so of them were stranded there. Wenxuan could only call for help. Then he had to appease the drivers’ emotions, and he was also worried that this section of road would also collapse, he was so anxious that he couldn’t even care about Qian Xiaolan’s messages.

A Hu’s tribe mobilized over a hundred people, and they worked for four or five hours before they finished filling all the water buckets that Qian Xiaolan had given them. On Xiao Jue’s side, all sorts of water containers were already placed from the basement to the large square outside the imperial study. This was the result of him calling three thousand imperial guards to transport a batch of water out overnight. Although he didn’t fill the water himself, Xiao Jue still felt very tired. But his heart was more at ease. For three years of drought, countless rivers and streams had dried up, the land had cracked, and there had been no harvest.

With such a large batch of water, and the batch of grain from yesterday, the people would be able to get some. The next morning, the civil and military officials came to court and were stunned by the buckets and tanks of water in the square. “Your Majesty, this… this… is Taizu showing his divine grace again?” Xiao Jue calmly nodded, flicked his robe, and knelt facing the imperial mausoleum, “Thank you, Taizu, thank you, Heaven, for your blessings!” Thank you, female ghost’s trading mall, may you be blessed in your next life, with a life of abundance, peace, and joy! Qian Xiaolan, who was still in the space, suddenly felt a warm current flowing through her body, the feeling made her incredibly comfortable. Seeing Xiao Jue kneeling, the officials hurriedly knelt down as well, chanting in unison, “Thank you, Taizu, thank you, Heaven, for your blessings!”

At the same time, the government had already cooked the first batch of grain into porridge, and they were distributing porridge and grain in the city and outside the city early in the morning. The officials were good at talking, they praised Taizu and Heaven profusely. They also said, “The reason why Taizu showed his divine grace is mainly because our Emperor is wise and benevolent, he is always thinking of the people, and he has moved Taizu and Heaven, so they have bestowed this blessing. His Majesty is always thinking of us, we must be grateful! We must not listen to rumors and do irrational things, which would make His Majesty disheartened, disappoint Taizu, and anger Heaven! As long as you are honest and law-abiding, His Majesty will never abandon you, do you understand?” After a series of threats and inducements, the officials looked at the queue of people with heavy eyes before letting them start distributing porridge.

Heh, some people, they really live too comfortably!